Steppenwolf · The Second
Magic Carpet Ride
Magic Carpet Ride is in E minor at 111.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
111 BPM · Moderatomedian of 279 analyses · 110.1–111.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 79%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 279people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 540.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.21dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.666Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.085Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
279 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 79% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 279 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 110.1 to 111.9 BPM.
At 111.1 BPM one beat lasts 540.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 135 ms and a dotted eighth 405 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 222.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.21 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.666 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in E minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with E minor
Each of these differs from E minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 111 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2160.2 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1080.1 | 0.93 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 810.1 | 1.23 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 540.1 | 1.85 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 360 | 2.78 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 405 | 2.47 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 270 | 3.7 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 180 | 5.56 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 202.5 | 4.94 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 135 | 7.41 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 90 | 11.11 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 67.5 | 14.81 |
Half time 55.6 BPM · double time 222.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (540.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- 7 DaysCraig DavidE minor111BPM
- I Don’t Live TodayThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceE minor112BPM
- Hey YouPink FloydE minor112BPM
- Edge of SeventeenStevie NicksE minor112BPM
- GuinnevereCrosby, Stills & NashE minor113BPM
- TeamBon IverE minor113BPM
- OutlandsDaft PunkE minor113BPM
- Not Fade AwayThe Rolling StonesE minor113BPM
- Outside Woman BluesCreamE minor114BPM
- Blow Me (One Last Kiss)P!nkE minor114BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 111 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 111 BPME minor at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 49 recording ids into this one. Recording id 453ddc4d-f8c2-406b-a14a-43dab56da555.